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Anything on four wheels that isn’t a bus falls into the 20%,” says Elly Baker, chair of the London Assembly’s transport ...

Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...

So Sir Pascal may seem an unlikely ally of Donald Trump, who as America’s president has slashed public spending on scientific ...

Yet when the cabinet voted in July to force all 2m people in the Gaza Strip into a tiny “humanitarian city”, indefinitely and ...

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In Rafah, a city at the very south of the Gaza Strip, the first floor of a health clinic was being used as a hub for ...

BP is not the only driller betting big on South America, which last year produced around two-fifths as much crude oil as ...

Most Israeli Jews thought their country was waging a just war. But since mid-July, mainstream news bulletins that had shunned ...

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